叩く (はたく): to strike, to clap, to dust, to beat — Japanese vocabulary
叩く is read はたく and means "to strike, to clap, to dust, to beat". JLPT N1 word with pitch accent and an example sentence.
叩く
- Reading
- はたく · hataku
- Translation
- to strike, to clap, to dust, to beat
- Level
- JLPT N1
- Pitch accent
- はたくが
Example
ありったけの貯金をはたいてこれを買った。
ありったけのちょきんをはたいてこれをかった。
I spent all the savings I had on this.
Kanji in this word
- 叩 — tap, hit
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